I had to downgrade from Microsoft® Outlook 2013 to 2010
since 2013 was just driving me bonkers with the poor IMAP support. In Microsoft® Outlook 2013 I had setup my
account on just IMAP and used an outlook.com account to handle my contacts and calendar
across all my devices. In setting up my
new profile (delete all old content to start fresh, but not going there now) I
had installed outlook connector first and setup my @outlook.com first, then
added the rest of my IMAP accounts after so I can get the upcoming appointments
and task bar populated from since the @outlook.com file would them become the “Local
Machine” data file.
So since only have IMAP accounts and Exchange accounts setup
in my Outlook 2010. For some reason the desktop alert when a new e-mail came in
were not showing up since I created this new Profile with no POP account setup
first. Basically no little preview of your new email on the bottom right of the taskbar
The new email alerts is enabled in the Outlook settings, I get
the little ding and I can even generate a preview but in real life it doesn't
work. However I do get the little
envelop icon on the notification area of windows 7Pro to indicate of new emails; BUT I want an
alert so I know to give this new "ding" sound any attention without
leaving what I'm doing right now.
I eventually found out how to get it back by setting a Rule
in Outlook so any new mail will throw up the alert.
To resolve this issue you have to manually create a “New rule” in outlook 2010 as so.
1. Click File
2. Click Manage Rules and Alerts
3. Click New Rule
4. Click Apply rule on messages in receive (Under the
section: Start from a blank rule)
5. Click Next
6. Do not set conditions and just click Next in the following
window of the wizard
7. Click Yes on "This rule will be applied to
every message you receive. Is this
correct?" box
8. Click the check box for "display a Desktop
Alert"
9. Click Next
10. Do not set any exceptions to this rule and click Next
11. Name the rule whatever you like or leave it stock. I
named it "Failed Outlook 2010 Desktop Alerts Solution"
12. In Step 2 check box for "Create this rule
on all accounts" and make sure check box is active for "Turn
on this rule"
13. Click Finish
14. Click Apply
15. Click OK
